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AL DÍA: ¿Qué opinan? Firmas del día: 10/23/12

Each morning, we will bring you an assortment of op-ed pieces from major Mexican dailies. Enjoy.

La Jornada

Clase Política, Miguel Ángel Rivera,” Reservas panistas”: The PAN members in the Senate were the deciding factor in the vote for the labor reform: the general labor reform was passed, but the Senators still have their doubts about the transparency topic; In denying the relief requested by Telmex, the Supreme Court upheld the authority of the Federal Communications Commission to set interconnection rates between companies; Officials from the Ministry of Education will meet with student teachers of Michoacán today to hear their complaints with the curriculum reform; Governor Roberto Borge Angulo opened the worldwide partner meeting of the International of Pharmaceutical Distributors.

Jorge Fernández Menéndez, “La reforma de Peña”: The labor reform bill passed the House of Representatives and will be presented to the Senate without changes, between Thursday and Friday, and they will decide whether or not to modify the four items the PAN (and presumably the PRD) want to drive around the call for more union democracy. Jorge Fernández Menéndez states that this reform has many implications for President-elect Peña Nieto and that in a sense it is more important as a symbol rather than the actual changes that it will cause in the labor market.

Trascendió: Samuel Meraz Lares, is the seventh judge from Jalisco that maybe involved in the criminal matters, Meraz ordered the release of a prisoner on August 9th who fifty-five days later was involved in the murder of José Eduardo Moreira; Tomorrow President Calderón and president-elect Peña Nieto will meet for the sixth time to discuss matters of finance, administration and education; President-elect Peña Nieto reunion with the cultural community has been postponed until the end of the month.

Templo Mayor: There is no way in understanding what is happening with the labor reform: on one side you have President Calderon no longer caring if the proposal of union democracy passes though he originally proposed it and now PRI are the ones fighting to keep the proposal; Head of Government, Marcelo Ebrard has announced that a new general hospital will be named after the former Secretary of Health Juan Ramón de la Fuente.

Bajo Reserva,” Los costos de la reforma laboral”: It must be assumed that President Calderón and President-elect Peña Nieto agreed at some point that it was time to present a labor reform and now it is possible that there will be one for the first time in decades; The two possible candidates that Andrés Manuel López Obrador will choose to help him seek the national leadership with his new party the National Regeneration Movement are Senator Alejandro Encinas and Representative Martí Batres.